Best solution to Put Tivo recordings to Surface 2/Pro 2 on on Windows 8.1/8/7

Description: Here is an easy way to help you convert and transfer Tivo recordings to Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 for watching on the go!

"Today is my son's birthday, and I recorded a video with my Tivo and I wanted to play it on my new Surface Pro 2. Could you give me some suggestion?"

Do you have the same problem with this customer? The 1920*1080 resolution 10.6-inch screen display on Surface 2 must be persuasive that Surface 2 would be your best choice to play your collection of video files with high quality. The only problem is that there is a limit on Surface 2 video format (Which file types are supported on Surface 2/Pro 2?). Never mind, below is a simply way to enable Surface RT & Pro Tablet to play Tivo files effortlessly.

Software required:

Download a trail version of Pavtube Surface Video Converter(available for Windows or for Mac users), a powerful high-quality video converter, player and editor.

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How to convert Tivo recordings to MP4 for viewing on Surface 2 or Surface Pro 2?

Important:

When you transfer Tivo recording to your PC, you must download the Tivo Desktop. Connect the Tivo box with your home network, and run Tivo Desktop. Click on "Pick Recordings to Transfer", check the video you want to transfer and click on " Start Transfer".

Step 1: Load Tivo file.

Run the Tivo to Surface Video Converter and load your Tivo recordings to the program through the "Add video" or "Add from Folder" button.

Note: When you load the Tivo recordings to Pavtube Video Converter, the program will ask you to input your Media Access Key. Do as the program requires, and then click "OK" to continue.

If you want a tablet computer - and as you may have heard, they're all the rage - you first need to decide what you want. The elegance of the iPad Air? The bargain price and decent specs of the Tesco Hudl? The PC-replacement solidity of the Microsoft Surface 2? Finally, there's a tablet that does all of the above and makes a compelling alternative. The Nokia Lumia 2520 is instantly recognisable as a Lumia, thanks to the familiar colours and polycarbonate casing found on the likes of the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Nokia Lumia 925.

The Nokia Lumia 2520's vivid 10.1-inch display, full HD resolution and bright screen makes a real joy for watching movies on the go. The video playback will be standout and movies will surely look super sharp. After you got fantastic this first Windows 8.1 RT Tablet, you may want to get your favourite movies off Blu-ray discs and onto the Nokia Lumia 2520 when you're traveling or just on the move. If so, you've come to the right place. In this article, I will show you how to download and put Blu-ray movies to Nokia Lumia 2520 and what my software setup was. If this is something you're interested in doing, read this full guide below.

Directly transferring Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet is impossible because this table doesn't support Blu-ray playback. To watch Blu-ray movie on Nokia Lumia 2520, you will need to convert Blu-ray to Lumia 2520 supported video formats like MP4, H.264, H.263, DivX, Xvid, etc. So the most important piece of the equation is that you have a Blu-Ray Ripping software hooked to your Windows or Mac PC.

There are thousands of Blu-ray rippers that can rip Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 playable video formats. Pavtube Blu-ray Conversion Program is one of the best Blu-ray software programs which can help you easily convert Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 highly compatible video formats (Including encrypted Blu-rays). After the ripping, you can transfer the converted videos to your Windows Phone and watch them anywhere and anytime you like. In addition, this Blu-ray Ripper can also rip Blu-ray to AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, OGG, FLAC, WAV, etc. for playing and sharing anywhere.

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If you are a Mac user, you can use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper Mac to encode Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 video formats on Mac (Mountain Lion and Mavericks 10.9 included). The Mac version has the same functions as the Windows (Windows 8.1/8/7 compatible) version. Just get the right version of the Blu-ray Ripper and follow the below guide to transfer Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 for playing in just a few clicks!

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Customer Reviews: Overall, the program is easy to use for editing and conversion and makes great quality copies of my Blu-rays. It helps me rip and convert all the Blu-ray Discs even Blu-ray iso/ifo image files. The audio/video synchronization is very good, the size of the subtitles too. I tried several softwares and I can tell you that NO ONE comes even close to the simpleness and great quality that Pavtubes softwares deliver. The time it takes to convert in this software is almost half that in other.

The main interface of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is as below. As you can see, you can convert Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 playable videos in just three step within clicks!

Step 1: Add your Blu-ray files by clicking the "Blu-ray disc" button. Browse from your computer's hard drive and select the Blu-ray files you want to rip. ISO image files and IFO files are also supported. After the Blu-ray files are loaded, you can preview them on the right viewing window and take snapshots of your favorite movie scene.

Step 3: Click "Convert" to start converting Blu-ray to Nokia Lumia 2520 MP4 videos. Just wait for the conversion process to finish. After that, you will get the converted MP4 video files and just transfer the videos to Nokia Lumia 2520 for playing.

Tips:

The Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper allows users to set conversion bitrate, which is related to output file size and quality. The lower part displays the file information. File size depends on the bitrate you use. By setting higher video bitrate the video quality and file size get increased.

To set video bitrate, click on "Settings" button. The pop-up Profile Settings window shows you a/v settings you're using. We find the best balance between 1500kbps to 2000kpbs on Nokia Lumia 2520's 10.1-inch screen (refer to the image above to get the best settings for Nokia Lumia 2520).

This converter lets you rip both Blu-ray and DVD to play on Nokia Lumia 2520 and various other tablets and smartphones.

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Rip Blu-ray/DVD to iTunes 11 with multi-tracks for Apple TV/iPad/iPhone/iPod

Description: Want to get your Blu-ray/DVD contents in iTunes Library 11? Or want to put your Blu-ray/DVD contents to your Apple devices through iTunes? In this article, you can find the easy way to do this.

iTunes, a name closely contact with Apple devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc. When first use Apple device, most people may not familiar with how to put music and videos to the device. The key is iTunes. So, first let's know something about it.

What is iTunes?

iTunes is not only a media player app to play audios and videos, but also a media library to download and manage digital music and videos on PC, as well as on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It is a bridge to transfer sources between PC and Apple devices. The latest version of iTunes is iTunes 11 which has "dramatically simplified new interface" and better "iCloud features"

Then, let's know how to enable iTunes play the role of transmitter. Most of you are not about to pay iTunes' ridiculous prices to watch movies and TV shows you already own on Blu-ray. As we know, videos upon Blu-ray disc have been in high definition format, many are usually in .m2ts file extension that is not based on apple iTunes, while iTunes could only recognize video files in MP4, MOV, M4V that you can't play Blu-ray on iTunes directly and even not to speak of keeping multi-tracks. Good news now what you need is only a professional Blu-ray ripper that can help you convert Blu-ray movies to iTunes supported MP4 format with multi-track.

To transfer Blu-ray contents to iTunes 11 library, the best program I can recommend is Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac (Windows version: ByteCopy), which you can use to remove the strict Blu-ray protection and region restrictions and Blu-ray/DVD contents to iTunes video very quickly with great video quality. It's an ideal app for you to copy Blu-ray/DVD to iTunes 11 library and any Apple devices.

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How to rip Blu-ray/DVD contents to iTunes 11 library with multi-track

Step1: Load Blu-ray/DVD movies.

Launch the best Blu-ray/DVD to iTunes with multi-track converter; import Blu-ray/DVD movies into the program. Loaded Blu-ray/DVD can be previewed in the right preview window.

Step 2: Choose output format

To rip Blu-ray/DVD to iTunes 11 library with multiple tracks, click the drop down box of "Format", and choose the "Multi-track MP4 (*.mp4)" profile under "Multi-track Video". This profile is designed to output videos with multiple audio tracks.

You can check the audios you want to keep and uncheck the audios you don't need. It all depends on your own choices.

If you want to add the Blu-ray/DVD contents to iTunes 11 library for play on iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc, you can also directly select iPhone, iPad, iPod as the output format to get videos with optimized settings for your Apple devices. Read How to rip Blu-ray to iTunes for iPad, iPhone4, iPod and Apple TV? to get the detail information.

If you need, you can also click "Settings" to modify parameters of your output profile to meet your professional needs: bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio, etc. Just remember the file size and video quality is mainly depends on bitrate than resolution which means higher bitrate results in big file size, lower visible quality loss and vice versa.

Step 3: The last step you need to do is hit the "Convert" button to start the conversion of Blu-ray/DVD content to iTunes 11 library supported format.

When the conversion is over, just find the folder of your output videos and add to your iTunes 11 library. Then you can play organize your Blu-ray/DVD contents on iTunes and put them on your Apple devices.

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